{"id":184902,"date":"2011-12-16T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/16\/ok-this-has-been-a-good-week-for-economic-news\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:06:00","slug":"ok-this-has-been-a-good-week-for-economic-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/16\/ok-this-has-been-a-good-week-for-economic-news\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, this has Been a Good Week for Economic News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/12\/15\/bloomberg_articlesLW91Y30D9L37.DTL\">saw the best number for initial jobless claims in 3\u00bd years<\/a>, dropping to 366,000, with the 4-week moving average dropping to 387,750, though continuing claims rose marginally, and extended claims jumped by almost 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Still, overall, this is good news, particularly when juxtaposed with the fact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/17\/business\/economy\/consumer-prices-stay-even.html\">that inflation is still nowhere to be seen<\/a>, though the &#8220;very serious&#8221; central bankers are still chasing that phantom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we saw the best number for initial jobless claims in 3\u00bd years, dropping to 366,000, with the 4-week moving average dropping to 387,750, though continuing claims rose marginally, and extended claims jumped by almost 10%. Still, overall, this is good news, particularly when juxtaposed with the fact that inflation is still nowhere to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,975,1200,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-employment","category-inflation","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}